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Shortly after, in 1729 Andrew Drummond, the founder of the Drummonds Bank and Jacobite sympathiser, purchased Stanmore House and the Stanmore Park estate as his country residence. [11] [12] A new mansion was built for Andrew Drummond at Stanmore Park in 1763: it was designed in neo Palladian style by John Vardy and Sir William Chambers.
In 1936 the first Connells estate agency branch was opened in Luton, Bedfordshire. [4] Connells acquired Sequence estate agency in 2003', [5] increasing its estate agency network to around 500 branches. In the same year, Connells acquired estate agency Sharman Quinney. [6] In 2008 Connells Group sold its remaining 18% stake in Rightmove plc. [7]
Founded in 1962 by estate agent and entrepreneur Raymond Andrews, [3] the NAEA was established with the goal of upholding good practice and high professional standards in UK estate agency. This struck a chord with the industry at a time when there was little representation for estate agents and has allowed the Association to grow phenomenally ...
A print by an unknown artist of Bentley Priory House, Stanmore, England c1800. In 1775, Sir John Soane designed a new house north of the original priory called Bentley Priory, [8] for James Duberley, an Army contractor. Duberley is thought to have pulled down the original Priory building before having a more imposing house built on a higher ...
Spicerhaart Group Ltd is an English estate agency, lettings agency and financial services company with its Head Office based in Colchester, Essex, and operating throughout the United Kingdom. It is the largest independent estate agency network in the UK.
Front windows of a small estate agency in Mons, Belgium. A house for sale in London. An estate agent is a person or business in the United Kingdom that arranges the selling, renting, or managing of properties and other buildings. An agent that specialises in renting is often called a letting or management agent.
Brockley Hill, Stanmore, is an area of high ground on the outskirts of North London, England. The hill, which rises to 136 metres (446 ft) above sea level, is traversed by the A5 road. It follows the course of the Roman road known as Watling Street. The hill is also associated with the Roman archaeological site called Sulloniacis.
Stanmore Country Park is a 30.7-hectare (76-acre) public park, Local Nature Reserve and Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation in Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow. It is owned and managed by Harrow London Borough Council. [1] [2] [3] The park was part of the grounds of an eighteenth-century mansion called Warren House.